Git does provide this feature :) For a view of commits that shows when they entered the current branch, rather than when they were authored (i.e. group all com

Git does provide this feature :) For a view of commits that shows when they entered the current branch, rather than when they were authored (i.e. group all commits from the same PR together in the history): git log --topo-order For only viewing merge commits (as if you were using a squash-and-rebase strategy, but without having to rewrite history at merge time): git log --merges Assuming you are using branches as groups of commits — kind of the point of a branch — and you're using merges with --no-ff (which is the default on Github for the Merge button — https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/configuring-pull-request-merges/about-merge-methods-on-github https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository... — and is necessary in this scheme to prevent fast-forward "merges" that would mess up viewing the merge history) rather than squashing and rebasing, `git log` shows you the "true" history, `git log --topo-order` shows you the chronological history of when commits entered the main branch, and `git log --merges` shows you the zoomed-out "clean" history of PR merges. Many people don't know about these features because Github doesn't have an option to view the log that way: only git does. TBH I wish Github had offered a --topo-order and --merges selector to their commit log view before offering a myriad of PR merging/rebasing options: git provides a wealth of solutions to viewing commit history without forcing you into destroying parts of it with squash-and-rebase. Edit: IMO, part of this issue is because of git's bad default log view. The --topo-order view is a much more useful view for reading the history of the repo (both for knowledge building and for debugging) than the default chronological-by-commit-timestamp view; typically you don't care what date a commit was authored on, as much as you care when it entered the main branch. I can't think of a single time I've actually wanted the default log view, and yet it's the default, and thus it's what Github shows.